[HamiltonJay]

Over 7 Million total Wii's sold, 360s 9.75 million even with a year longer on the market.

Analysts predict Wii overtakes 360 by end of 08, I say if Nintendo gets its production numbers up, they will take #1 spot by end of 07. Wii still sells out within hours of shipments arriving.

Big N definately will own this generation of consoles in terms of units sold.

MS is praying Halo 3 will boost sales for them.. but Wii still hasn't had some of Nintendos strongest franchises released yet. Metroid doesn't come out until OCT, Pokemon I think is JUNE or JULY, and Super Mario Galaxy isn't out yet either.

Big N, is definately back.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Last time I was in Target, they STILL didn’t have an available Wii sitting on their shelves.

If you had told me in January that it would still be hard to find a Wii in May, I’d have thought you were trying to scare me.

I’m glad I picked mine up in January, even though it was difficult.

[ShadowAce]

[Paradox]

This is a great story. N has been down for years (except handlheld markets), but still, the N was nuttin. On the other hand, MS and Sony got into Power Wars with their consoles, designing these electricity eating beasts, that had great graphics no doubt, but yet, on the other hand, the games themselves played just like the games from the previous generation, if not the one prior to that.

Enter Nintendo, with its "wimpy" game, but with GAME PLAY the primary consideration, lesser hardware, sold at 1/2 the price of the other two. Bang! Big winner!

[antiRepublicrat]

Nintendo sold 436,000 Wii video game consoles in January, while Xbox 360 sold 294,000 and Sony's PlayStation 3 sold 244,000 units.

You almost want to look at this and think "PS3 costs over twice as much, so people are actually spending more money on PS3s." The problem with that is that Sony takes an estimated loss of about $300 per PS3 sold, while Nintendo makes a profit off of every Wii.

Microsoft just announced that their XBox division will become overall profitable next year. But Sony is hurting with the PS3 and PSP. Sony just announced one third of the profits from the last year ($1.9 billion down to $600 million) mainly attributable to their games division, which over the last year ran up an almost $2 billion deficit.

I wish I'd bought Nintendo stock when everyone was saying they'll go the way of Sega at about the time the Cube was in third place and the DS (which is currently printing money) hadn't taken off yet.

[JamesP81]

I personally like the 360 better, but the concept behind the 360 is flawed. It costs too much money. Console gamers generally aren't as 'hardcore' about their gaming as PC gamers are. Anyone who is hardcore enough to spend 500-700 bucks on an XBox is probably a hardcore enough gamer to spend $1200-$1800 and get a PC that's faster than the 360, not to mention more games lend themselves to keyboard, mouse, and joystick control than gamepad control. This is the very reason why I don't own a 360 even though I like them best of all the consoles; I have a high end gaming machine. The difference in money isn't that much when you consider the money spent on a 360 plus the money spent on a lower end PC for common tasks such as email and internet browsing. A gaming PC fulfills both functions nicely. I started playing Oblivion on my best friend's XBox 360. When I got the game for myself, I didn't buy a 360; I simply got the PC version which is identical to the XBox version (plus, I prefer the keyboard and mouse to to the gamepad).

Nintendo is the console king for one simple reason: they understand their market better than Sony or Microsoft.

[mjp]

After crunching the numbers for Jan-Apr the winner in total dollars is:

PS3 = $349800000

WII = $347500000

XBOX(at$300) = $268500000

XBOX(at$400) = $358000000

[Lancey Howard]

I still play Dr. Mario.

[Xenalyte]

This thread so far is in the lead for Minimalist Headline of the Week.

[jpl]

Metroid doesn't come out until OCT.

I can't wait for this baby to come out.

The Nintendo A devlopment team has always made by far the best games out of anyone.

Shigeru Miyamoto is one of the most creative minds in the world that most Americans have never heard of.

[Tanniker Smith]

Wii is cheaper and more readily available.
Oh, and it's a lot of fun and adults can get in on the action.

I got to punch my wife out in boxing. She complained about a defective controller. I didn't complain -- I made sure that I didn't use that controller.

[Tanniker Smith]

Actually, the funny thing is when my son’s in a mood, he’ll ask his mother to take out her Atari 2600 . . .

[SuziQ]

We watched an interesting show last night about how Nintendo won the rights for Tetris, for the Game Boy and their consoles, back in the 80’s.

[LanPB01]

Eurogamer says Metroid Prime will available on the 20th of August.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=76647

[elizabetty]

[Spiff]

We got our Wii right before Christmas. After the initial excitement, the kids haven’t turned it on since February.

[kenth]

Power and complexity are important to gaming, but in the end, it has to be FUN. Sony seemed to be counting on the geek factor of it’s amazing processor. Nintendo counted on the wow factor of it’s controls, and how fun it is actually doing something rather than just sitting in awe of a processor.

Even the commercials were completely different. Nintendo’s were whimsical and fun to watch.

[GunRunner]

The four Nintendo titles are: ‘Pokemon Diamond’ and ‘Pokemon Pearl’ for the DS that sold 1.04 million and 712,000 units respectively. ‘Super Paper Mario’ for the Wii came in third with 352,000 games sold in April, while ‘Wii Play With Remote’ recorded 249,000 sales during the month.

WoooHoo!! Pokemon games!

Wow, Nintendo execs are such GENIUSES! Package a Gamecube in a shinier box with a funky controller and release a bunch of Pokemon games.

Seriously, I'm glad Sony and Microsoft have more respect for themselves than to push garbage like Pokemon games. The Wii is great if you're 5 years old, but little kids are only half the market. There's plenty of money to be made from people who don't play Mario and Japanimation games.

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

This is interesting for 2 reasons, first there are no Wiis anywhere, but there are plenty of Xbox360 and PS3s. Second, there aren’t really that many first-rate titles out for the Wii, most are just product demonstration-type titles. We’re still waiting for Mario Party 8 for the kids, been ‘Coming Soon’ since dirt was new...

[Tolsti]

The wii is the first Nintendo console I’m skipping, ever. PS3/360 for me. I never used my Gamecube, and these games are basically the same with a gimmick controller.

A 56” HDTV really needs the power, plus I can watch blu-ray and hddvd on the other 2. Had Nintendo gone HD with it, I might’ve considered it.

[DvdMom]

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